On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:47:16PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote: > PS. (Off topic, so I left it as a postscript) Since when has NetBSD > had its own version of awk? It is one-true-awk with a bunch of GNUisms supported. IIRC gensub falls into that category. For quite a while as answer to the second question. Joerg